Safety retaining device.



Patented Oct. 17 1.916`

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SAFETY B EIAINING DEV-IQE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC127' 19,15.

v ABRAHAM E. APELEE, or wA'rEEvLIET, AND JOHN T. MCG1N1TY,0E GREEN IsLAND,

NEW YORK.

RTAI-NINGr DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent..

Patented Get. I7, 1916.

'Application mea December 27, 1915. serial No. 68,719..

To all whom it may concern: l l

Be it known that we,` ABRAHAM B.V APPLER and JOHN T, McGiNi'rr, Vcitizens of the United States, residing at Watervliet, county of Albany,`State of New York, and Green Island, in the county of Albany and State of New York, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Retaining Devices, of which the following is a specification.

@ur invention relates to a device comprising a plate and a spring adapted toact as a safety device for holding various parts of machinery securely in place, and among the objects in view is to provide a device of the character described which will be extremely simple and inexpensive in construction and eliicient in operation, the same being adapted to hold various parts securely in place, such as lubricant cellars in journal boxes of locomotives and cars, piping and the like on locomotives, etc.

The invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure l is a vertical sectional view of a journal box of a locomotive showing our invention in connection therewith. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on a line just above the safety plate and showing Vthe spring in position. Fig. 4- shows a plan view and an edge view of the spring.

While we have illustrated in the drawings, as an example only, the application of our invention to the journal box of a locomotive, yet it will be understood that the device is equally well adapted for application to.

various other parts of machinery or structures.

e indicates a journal box of a locomotive, within which box is arranged a lubricant cellar f, containing suitable lubricant f. The cellar 7, is movably arranged in the box c, and its upper edges are adapted to bear against shoulders g, formed on the journal box, which shoulders thus limit the upward movement of the cellar.

Integral with the box e, are the four depending lugs (Z, which areJ formed each with a depression 7L, forming a horizontal bearing surface y', upon which the plate a, is

adapted to rest, andalso forming a' shoulder z, which shoulders constitute abutments between which the plate is confined and prevented from moving out of place both sidewise and endwise.v Each of the lugs is 'further provided with a horizontal groove c, lying in a horizontal plane slightly above the plate when the latter is in position.

The bottom ofthe cellar is arched upwardly as at c', and against the under surface of the arch bears the curved or bowed spring b. This arch prevents the lubricant cellar from moving along the upper surface of the spring and thereby retains the lubricant in its proper relationvto the vsurface to be lubricated, as an axle journal Z, even though the bolts which hold the lubricant cellar in place have become broken or lost. The lubricant cellar is further providedon opposite sides of itsarched portion with depending lugs c" which lie on opposite sides ofthe spring Z), to assist in holding it in place, as seen more clearly in Fig. 2. The spring o, is secured at one end by studs, bolts or rivets o to the plate a.. The plate a, is applied by pushing it along the grooves c, thereby compressing the spring and finally drops into the depressions L, in the lugs and rests upon the surfaces j. By reason of the spring being under compression the same acts to hold the lubricant box securely in place and the plate a, is also held firmly in its position. In removing the plate it is raised against the compression'of the spring and then pulled out along the grooves. y

7c are bolts which pass through apertures in the lugs el, and the lubricant cellar to re` tain the latter in place. While we may use such bolts in `connection with our retaining device, yet it is not our intention to so restrict the use of our device, and the bolts le,

may be dispensed with, since by the use of the safety device theyare not required.

What we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. The combination with a journal box provided with ldepending lugs, each ofL f2. The combination with a journal box provided with depending lugs, of a lubricant cellar arranged within the journal box, the lower or bottom portion of said cellar being arched, a plate seated in the lugs, and a bowed spring carried by the plate and seating within the arched portion of the cellar andbearing against the underside thereof.

3. The combination, with a journal box provided with depending lugs, of a lubricant cellar arranged within the journal box, the lower or bottom portion of said cellar being arched and having depending lugs on opposite sides of the arched portion, a plate seated in the lugs of the journal box, and a bowed spring carried by the plate and seating within the arched portion of the cellar and bearing against the underside thereof.

In testimony whereof we ailix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ABRAHAM B. APPLER. JOHN T.V MGGINITY.

Witnesses Trios. Gr. Ross,

J. L. MACFADYEN.

Copies of this patent may 'be obtained for ve `cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

